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On Human Nature - The Biology and Sociology of What Made Us Human (Hardcover)
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On Human Nature - The Biology and Sociology of What Made Us Human (Hardcover)
Series: Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences
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In this book, Jonathan H. Turner combines sociology, evolutionary
biology, cladistic analysis from biology, and comparative
neuroanatomy to examine human nature as inherited from common
ancestors shared by humans and present-day great apes. Selection
pressures altered this inherited legacy for the ancestors of
humans-termed hominins for being bipedal-and forced greater
organization than extant great apes when the hominins moved into
open-country terrestrial habitats. The effects of these selection
pressures increased hominin ancestors' emotional capacities through
greater social and group orientation. This shift, in turn, enabled
further selection for a larger brain, articulated speech, and
culture along the human line. Turner elaborates human nature as a
series of overlapping complexes that are the outcome of the
inherited legacy of great apes being fed through the transforming
effects of a larger brain, speech, and culture. These complexes, he
shows, can be understood as the cognitive complex, the
psychological complex, the emotions complex, the interaction
complex, and the community complex.
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